Few months ago Nikon announced a rather weird product: the Nikon Media Port UP300x. At the Photo Imaging Expo 2009 in Japan, Nikon had the Media Port UP300x on display connected to a Nikon D90 - the photographer could basically see the viewfinder through the eyepiece. Pretty cool! You add a remote trigger and you have something you can impress your clients with. Check the whole report at focus-numerique.com:

Cute, but Ashton Kutcher brought Nikon Coolpix sales highest ever, and profit from Coolpix cameras are 10 times higher than DSLR-s, so go figure…
More probable is that Nikon may drop DSLR-s…

Anonymous

stop whining and use what nikon already have to offer.

Gustav

Try a little perspective, Do you think Nikon has only one R&D team and can’t work on multiple products at once?

And as annoying as Ashton Kutcher is, celebrity endorsement is a marketing method that works. Internet geeks don’t respond to TV marketing. Luckily, we’re a minority.

As for “reasonable prices”, well, they’ve been in business for a long time. I’ll trust them to set their prices appropriately. I wouldn’t want them to price their products so low that they don’t have enough profit for future R&D.

Crabby

It’s clear to me why this is only for the Japanese market!

Please, please, please update the 80-400mm and/or the 300mm f/4 before I die of old age. (Asking for a 400mm f/4 as Canon offers is too much, I know.)

Anonymous

it amazes me how technology gets better and better every minute of our lives, new and improved technology make things even easier, faster, more fun…

… EXCEPT it makes us pretty lazy.

Joergen

Been there, done that, it seems like things are just looping with addons and upgrades, 10years ago I also shot digital which could be processed by my pc….

Impress your customers? The news agencies won’t be impressed much by me sneaking around like a cyborg. I’d better be waiting for the UP400x with head-mount camera connector to wear your DSLR on top of your head. And no, it’s NOT a rumor, just a joke. (I know you’re a little sensitive with that.) 😉